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Nadda asks BJP workers to strengthen party's connect with poor, downtrodden

BJP chief JP Nadda on Saturday asked party workers to further strengthen the party's connect with the poor and downtrodden by working with them, and ensuring the Modi government's schemes are properly implemented on the ground. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said public is our strength. We have to connect with people including the poor and the downtrodden by working with them and working for them, and strengthening public participation," he said, addressing a 'Basti Sampark Abhiyan' at Karol Bagh here. Nadda lauded the BJP workers for holding "Sewa Pakhwara" programmes at lakhs of places across the country to mark the prime minister's birthday on Saturday. He said blood donation camps, adoption of TB patients and distribution of nutrition kits to them were held to mark the birthday. Nadda said he himself has decided to take care of 11 TB patients. Through the "Sampark Abhiyan", BJP workers will visit 70,000 slums across the country before the Lok Sabha polls in 2024. Citing var

BJP chief Nadda forms five-member team to probe Nabanna Chalo violence

On Tuesday, the BJP carried out a massive protest march, 'Nabanna Abhijan', to the state secretariat where a clash broke out between BJP workers and police inside the Bolpur railway station

RSS coordination to start in Chhattisgarh tomorrow; BJP's Nadda to attend

The three-day 'Akhil Bharatiya Samanvay Baithak' or annual national coordination meet of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will be held from Saturday in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, a functionary of the outfit said. The meeting, to be held in Jainam Manas Bhavan near the airport here, would be attended by 36 outfits inspired by the RSS, among them the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, he said. The 'Akhil Bharatiya Samanvay Baithak' will be attended by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, its 'sarkaryawah' (general secretary) Dattatreya Hosbole and office-bearers of these 36 outfits, said Sunil Ambekar, the RSS' 'Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh'. "All these organisations are actively working for social causes and nationalism, and they will share their experiences, works done and achievements in the last one year. Besides, discussion will be held on the coordinated efforts on key issues like environment, family ...

BJP will fight family parties, dynastic politics with its ideology: Nadda

Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Friday dubbed regional outfits as "family parties" and said his party will fight against dynastic politics in the country with its ideology. Addressing a convention of booth level party workers at Science College ground in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur, Nadda also accused Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel of looting people of the state and making it an "ATM of the Congress party". Nadda, who is on his maiden visit to the Congress-ruled state after assuming charge as BJP national president, asked party workers to take the messages of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the booth level and apprise people with works being done under the latter's leadership. Asserting the BJP is the only party which has an ideology to serve people, he said, Our fight is against the politics of 'vanshwad' (dynasty). Right from Jammu and Kashmir to Tamil Nadu, we are battling against it." "In Jammu and Kashmir, the fight is against National Conference (NC) and PDP, in

Shah, Nadda meet BJP leaders to discuss roadmap for 144 'weak' LS seats

BJP chief J P Nadda and Union home minister Amit Shah held a brainstorming session on Tuesday with key party leaders tasked with boosting its prospects in 144 Lok Sabha seats, considered difficult for it, in the 2024 polls. Over 25 Union ministers, including Bhupender Yadav, Giriraj Singh, Smriti Irani, Parshottam Rupala and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, were among those who attended the meeting with Nadda and Shah. Sources said reports were presented about the work undertaken by various ministers, who have been assigned three to four such Lok Sabha seats, besides other leaders. The party has been working to amp up its booth-level presence and reach out to various communities with an eye on the beneficiaries of several central government schemes. Party leaders said they will continue to work on these lines in addition to the directives made by the leadership. Most of these 144 constituencies include those the party had lost in the 2019 polls, but a few winning seats are also part of t

Shah, Nadda to discuss roadmap for 144 missed LS seats with BJP leaders

With an eye on the 2024 elections, BJP chief JP Nadda and senior leader Amit Shah will hold a brainstorming session Tuesday with key party leaders to draw a roadmap for winning the 144 Lok Sabha seats it missed by narrow margins in the previous election, sources said. These seats were divided into clusters and one Union minister each was appointed as their in-charge. Another set of ministers was sent to assess the political situation by visiting all assembly segments within these constituencies, spread across states including West Bengal, Telangana, Maharashtra, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. They were also tasked to identify potential candidates. Several Union ministers including Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupender Yadav, Narendra Singh Tomar, Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur, Mansukh Mandaviya, Jyotiraditya Scindia are likely to attend the meeting at the BJP headquarters. The ministers will present a detailed report on these constituencies during the meeting. This list of 144 Lok

Nadda, Biren Singh greet five JD-U MLAs who merged with BJP in Manipur

After Manipur Chief Minister and state BJP chief, party's national president JP Nadda greeted 5 Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MLAs, who merged with the saffron party

Nadda chairs meeting with BJP's state office bearers, district president

BJP national president JP Nadda on Saturday chaired a meeting with the party's state office bearers and district president at PWD Rest House in Panchkula

BJP chief JP Nadda offers prayers at Mata Mansa Devi temple in Panchkula

He also chaired a meeting with the party's state office bearers and district president in Panchkula

First keep your flock together, then talk of Bharat Jodo: Nadda to Congress

Making an unsparing attack on the Congress that has seen an exit of many senior leaders in recent times, BJP chief J P Nadda on Friday mocked the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra, telling it to first keep its flock together. Taking a dig at the Congress during a rally in Haryana's Kaithal, he also accused it of being a family-centric party. "The Congress is now neither a party of ideology nor a national party, nor even a regional party. It has been reduced to a brother-sister party," Nadda said apparently referring to former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi. Referring to senior Congress Ghulam Nabi Azad's exit from the party, he said the people who spent 50 years for it and gave their blood and sweat are deserting it. "Did you ever think why are they leaving," the BJP chief asked, adding that senior leaders are quitting with a message that the party first needs to keep its flock together. "Now, they are talking of Bharat Jodo, Bharat Jodo, 'arrey pehle party toh

JP Nadda asks CM Arvind Kejriwal to prove innocence in Delhi liquor scam

BJP president JP Nadda has said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal should answer the questions on the alleged liquor scam and go to court if no wrongdoing was committed. Addressing a press conference in Agartala, Nadda claimed that Kejriwal was trying to divert the people's attention from the alleged scam. "Whenever he is asked about the liquor scam and excise policy, he evades the questions. Sometimes Kejriwal claims that the Central government is trying to send his leaders to jail and sometimes he says AAP leaders are being harassed and sometimes he says something else," Nadda said on Monday. Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has recommended a CBI probe into alleged corruption in the implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 while the AAP is claiming that he is "interfering" in the city government's work. "You first answer the queries of the investigative agencies. All the accused after detention claims he or she is innocent, honest and clean. If you have not ..

Senior leaders are leaving Congress as it has become 'family party': Nadda

BJP national president J P Nadda on Monday said that senior leaders with 40-50 years of association with the Congress are leaving the outfit as it has become a "family party". He claimed that the grand old party is getting weakened as it did not amalgamate regional aspirations with national aspirations and commitments. Without naming Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the Congress days ago, Nadda said, "Senior leaders with 40-50 years of association are leaving the party. It is because they have realised that Congress is now neither a national party nor a regional one. It has become a family party." He also listed out several regional outfits and claimed those too have become "family parties". "The Indian National Congress was such a big party. But now it is getting weakened as it didn't amalgamate regional aspirations with national aspirations and commitments," Nadda said. He gave examples of several states that the Congress had ruled for decades but is now not in power. "The BJP is not

Telangana HC allows Nadda's rally in Warangal, BJP's ex-MLC hails decision

BJP's former MLC Ramchander Rao hailed Telangana High Court's decision for allowing party's national president JP Nadda's rally in Warangal on Saturday

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Tripura; Nadda to visit on Sunday ahead of polls

Ahead of the Assembly elections in Tripura scheduled early next year, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived here on a two-day visit to the BJP ruled state on Friday

BJP top brass pulls up Dilip Ghosh over his questioning CBI's impartiality

The BJP central leadership cautioned the party's national vice-president Dilip Ghosh over his recent remarks questioning CBI's impartiality and asked him to refrain from making such controversial remarks in future. Ghosh had recently stirred a hornet's nest by claiming that some CBI officers were hand in glove with the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. Continuing his tirade against the central investigating agency, Ghosh on Monday wondered what action CBI has taken in the post-poll violence in which he alleged around 60 BJP workers were killed in West Bengal after the Assembly elections last year. "Yesterday, I got a call from our party's national president J P Nadda. He wanted to know why I made such a remark. I explained my position. I was asked not to make such comments in future," Ghosh told PTI on Tuesday. Embarrassed by his remarks, the state BJP unit, which swears by the impartiality of the CBI, had reported the matter to the party's top brass. The state leadership

Modi govt surpassed previous govts in increasing agri budget: J P Nadda

BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda said on Saturday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government has done a lot for farmers with a fourfold increase in the agricultural budget in eight years. Addressing a public meeting at the municipal council ground in Paonta Sahib in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmour district, Nadda claimed that no other government worked so much for the farmers as the current dispensation. The Opposition kept talking about the farmers' agitation, but the Modi government focused on helping farmers prosper, he claimed. "The agricultural budget has seen a fourfold increase during Narendra Modi's tenure as prime minister. It is now Rs 1,33,000 crore from just Rs. 33,000 crore in 2014," he said. The country has to grow unitedly to become a developed nation by 2047, he added. We have to also keep in mind our traditions and Indian culture, the oldest in the world, he added. Earlier, he paid obeisance at Paonta Sahib Gurudwara. Nadda is scheduled to address a pu

Nadda to visit Himachal today to grease the wheels of upcoming poll

BJP national president JP Nadda will visit the poll-bound Himachal Pradesh today to deliberate on the strategy with the leaders of the state unit

BJP eyes 35 seats in Bihar for 2024 Lok Sabha polls after NDA ouster

Days after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) parted ways with the National Democratic Alliance, BJP has set a target of winning 35 seats in Bihar in 2024 Lok Sabha elections

Nadda to meet Bihar party leaders for strategy in state after BJP's ouster

Days after its old ally JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar severed alliance and formed a government with RJD, BJP chief JP Nadda is scheduled to meet party's leaders from Bihar unit

News updates: Vajpayee made pioneering efforts to transform India, says PM

Live news updates: A prime minister for six years between 1998-2004, Vajpayee, a Bharat Ratna awardee, died in 2018 at 93 years of age